[NTG-context] Printing mailing list labels

2023-01-25 Thread Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context 
If you've ever struggled with Word's or (worse) LibreOffice's mail merge 
features to print a mailing list onto sticky labels then this might be of 
interest.

I've created some macros and an example file showing how to print address 
labels on Avery L7160 paper (which is 7 rows of 3 labels on A4) and uploaded 
them here.


Features:
- full control over label content (can even differ from one label to the next 
if necessary)
- easily use up a part-used sheet of labels to avoid waste
- read address data from a CSV file
- easily support different address formats for different international 
destinations
- option to preview on plain paper
- even label your labels in the page header so you remember why you printed 
them!


No licence - the files are placed in the public domain. Feedback welcome.
—
Bruce Horrocks
Hampshire, UK

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Re: [NTG-context] Lucida-1.901 (2023-01-21) available

2023-01-25 Thread Mikael Sundqvist via ntg-context 
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 11:02 AM Otared Kavian via ntg-context
 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Thanks Hraban for the information and the link to the article by Hans and 
> Mikael about the math fonts in Lucida.
>
> I very much appreciated that article: one sees how the handling of almost 
> impercebtile details in ConTeXt make us to adhere to and love LuaMetaTeX… So 
> a great thank you to Hans and Mikael for all this work!
>
> Regarding the details of vertical alignment in math, I wonder whether the 
> column « : » in front of the equal sign « = », in the combination « := » 
> (used to define for instance a new variable) should be alos centered around 
> the math axis, as explained in the article. For instance in the following 
> example
>
> \setupbodyfont[lucidaot,12pt]
> \starttext
> \startformula
> f(x) := -(u|x) := - \langle u, x \rangle
> \stopformula
> \stopformula
> \startformula
> f : A \longrightarrow B
> \stopformula
> \stoptext
>
> it seems to me that the lower dot (or square…) in the semicolumn of the first 
> formula (in front of the equal sign) is lower than in the second formula.
>
> Best regards: Otared

Thank you for the kind words, Otared,

Regarding the colons (and other symbols with "dots"), I would say it
is still not optimal in Lucida (and difficult to make it "consistent",
there are too many symbols that are at the moment different). But in
your example you can use \colonequals and \colon if you prefer. They
are centered around the math axis.

Best, Mikael

\setupbodyfont[lucidaot,12pt]
\starttext
\startformula
f(x) := -(u|x) \colonequals - \langle u, x \rangle
\stopformula
\startformula
f : A \longrightarrow B \breakhere
f \colon A \longrightarrow B
\stopformula
\startformula
\mathaxisbelow := \colonequals : \colon
\stopformula
\stoptext
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Re: [NTG-context] Lucida-1.901 (2023-01-21) available

2023-01-25 Thread Otared Kavian via ntg-context 
Hi,

Thanks Hraban for the information and the link to the article by Hans and 
Mikael about the math fonts in Lucida.

I very much appreciated that article: one sees how the handling of almost 
impercebtile details in ConTeXt make us to adhere to and love LuaMetaTeX… So a 
great thank you to Hans and Mikael for all this work!

Regarding the details of vertical alignment in math, I wonder whether the 
column « : » in front of the equal sign « = », in the combination « := » (used 
to define for instance a new variable) should be alos centered around the math 
axis, as explained in the article. For instance in the following example

\setupbodyfont[lucidaot,12pt]
\starttext
\startformula
f(x) := -(u|x) := - \langle u, x \rangle
\stopformula
\stopformula
\startformula
f : A \longrightarrow B
\stopformula
\stoptext

it seems to me that the lower dot (or square…) in the semicolumn of the first 
formula (in front of the equal sign) is lower than in the second formula.

Best regards: Otared

> On 23 Jan 2023, at 09:39, Henning Hraban Ramm via ntg-context 
>  wrote:
> 
> https://tug.org/pipermail/lucida/2023-January/000921.html
> 
> A new version (1.901) of the Lucida OpenType fonts from TUG is
> available.  As with previous updates, there's no additional charge if
> you've already purchased licenses; you can use the same download
> information sent to you at the time of purchase to get the new fonts.
> (If you've lost the download info, you can email us at
> lucida-admin at tug.org.)
> 
> I will append the changes for this release. The same information is also
> online at https://tug.org/store/lucida/NEWS.txt.
> 
> To summarize, the most significant changes have been to the math fonts,
> especially the regular-weight LucidaBrightMathOT. Many of these changes
> were discussed in greater detail in the recent article about Lucida math
> by Hans Hagen and Mikael Sundqvist:
>  https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb43-3/tb135hagen-lucida.pdf
> 
> The four Lucida Sans fonts and the three specialized fonts (Blackletter,
> Calligraphy, Handwriting) are not changed at all from the last release
> (not even version numbers or dates). All other fonts were changed.
> 
> On behalf of TUG, I thank Hans, Mikael, and Michael Sharpe, who among
> them did essentially all of the technical font editing for this
> release. And we must thank Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes (they approved
> this release, as always), without whom nothing could be done.
> 
> Bug reports and character/feature requests are welcome (email to this
> list is best), though, as usual, we cannot promise any particular
> timeline for the next release.
> 
> Happy typesetting,
> Karl [Berry]
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